Summer Term 2026
!!! This semester the colloquium will be an On-site event: only a few talks will take place Online and most will be On-site at VG 1.105 (Administrative Building - PIZ 5361). Detailed information as to how to join the meetings will be shared via the LinG mailing list. Talks will be announced regularly via the LinG mailing list and on this website (see below).
Wednesdays 4-6 PM (CT)
This is a preliminary schedule that will be extended, and possibly altered, in the weeks to come.
April 15 (Wednesday 4-6 PM CT): No Regular Colloquium
Speaker: Agata Renans (University of Konstanz)
Talk: Experimental paradigm for clausal determiners - Akan 'no' in relative clauses
Speaker: Salikoko S. Mufwene (University of Chicago)
Talk: Let's Talk about ‘Language’: What is It, from an Evolutionary Perspective?
Speaker: Moreno Mitrović (ZAS, Berlin)
Talk: Plastic Grammar: Universal Grammar, Register Variability, and Third-Factor Principles
Speaker: Stanislao Zompi (Potsdam University)
Talk: On the Typology of Pied-Piping and Secondary Movement in Nested Configurations
Speaker: Victor Edgar Onea Gaspar (University of Graz)
Talk: Locus Semantics: What We Learn from Sign Language for the Architecture of Meaning
Speaker: Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University)
Talk: Linguistic and neural consequences of iconicity in American Sign Language
Speaker: Deniz Özyildiz (University of Stuttgart)
Talk: How to embed polar questions in Akan
Speaker: Anindita Sahoo (IIT Madras)
Talk: Grammatical voices as a communication strategy
General Coordinator:
Hedde Zeijlstra (Email)